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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stupidity, home of the greatest media mind ever

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Speaker 1: to walk the planet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, shoot, here's the deal. He's a true icon in

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Speaker 2: every sense of the word. He's loved and feared more

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Speaker 1: To Grace's plummeet, there's got a man with a voice

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Speaker 1: that sounds like Erry White and be got to say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Baby, God himself would pay thirty nine

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Speaker 1: ninety nine for a cameo. Fact of the matter is,

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Speaker 1: you are about to embark on a transcendent experience that

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Speaker 1: can only be described as psychological nudity. This is st

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Speaker 1: Gox and this is stupidity.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, Jim Holy.

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Speaker 3: Sophia Seving is with us here in studio at the

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Speaker 3: brad Star Studios.

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Speaker 2: Did I say your last name correctly? I did?

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Speaker 4: All?

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Speaker 2: Okay, good.

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Speaker 3: We started off we were having a little casual conversation.

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Speaker 3: I said, you're the best pickupball player in the world,

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Speaker 3: and you said, well, I'm number one in the APPI

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Speaker 3: what does that mean.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's two different leagues and pick a ball. There's

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Speaker 4: PPA and there's apps. So I play APP. I've only

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Speaker 4: been playing APP this year. And then you have the

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Speaker 4: PPA League, which players are contracted to play, right, So

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Speaker 4: I decided to go the app route, which I'm really

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Speaker 4: happy about.

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, I'm number one singles player on App League.

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Speaker 2: Why do you decide to go that route? That's the

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Speaker 2: big League? By the way, whatever league you're number one

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Speaker 2: in is the big League. You get it right.

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Speaker 4: I decided to go that route just because in PPA

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Speaker 4: you're locked down. You're only allowed to play PPA tournaments,

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Speaker 4: which I wasn't too fond of. I like to have,

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Speaker 4: you know, the freedom to travel to play different leagues,

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Speaker 4: different tournaments. I'm used to that from tennis, so I

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Speaker 4: didn't really want to be locked down into something that

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Speaker 4: I'm not really sure where they're headed. Also, so I'd

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Speaker 4: just like to have the freedom to do what I want,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 3: I had a sad moment over the weekend with pick

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Speaker 3: a ball and with tennis because I went to the

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Speaker 3: tennis facility where I live, and it used to be

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Speaker 3: all tennis courts and they took half the tennis courts

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Speaker 3: out and now.

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Speaker 2: It's it's pickleball court.

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Speaker 3: So they have pickleball courts and tennis courts, and the

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Speaker 3: tennis courts were empty. So this is on Saturday night,

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Speaker 3: around six point thirty and I'm driving around to my

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Speaker 3: golf corp and all the tennis courts are empty. The

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Speaker 3: pickleball courts are packed, and they're packed with young people.

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Speaker 2: Are you surprised by that?

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Speaker 3: Like I was sad for tennis because tennis is no

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Speaker 3: longer the popular sport with young people and with families

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Speaker 3: in particular. Are you surprised that pickle ball has made

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Speaker 3: this big of an impact.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was say, in the beginning, when I was

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Speaker 4: still playing tennis, I was very unhappy.

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Speaker 5: Every time I would go right to my.

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Speaker 4: Club to train, or to the local courts where I

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Speaker 4: would train at with my dad, I would feel like

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Speaker 4: there would be pickleball people playing pick a ball on

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Speaker 4: the tennis courts and I wasn't able to train, and

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Speaker 4: we would be so upset about it, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: oh my god, this sport.

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Speaker 5: I can't take it. It's it was.

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Speaker 4: Very frustrating in the beginning, right, But I think now

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Speaker 4: that I've left the tennis world, now I'm in pickaball,

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Speaker 4: I can see why so many people, you know, just

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Speaker 4: have so much fun playing.

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Speaker 5: It's so easy to play. I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Anybody from any age range can really just pick it

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Speaker 4: up and have fun with their friends or their family.

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Speaker 4: And it's just it's not a ton of it's good cardio,

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Speaker 4: it's not a ton of cardio. So you know, you know, tennis,

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's a little bit harder, and there's

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Speaker 2: Well, bigger courts, the bigger.

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Speaker 5: Court and you really.

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Speaker 4: In tennis, you know, to play and have a good time,

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Speaker 4: you need to find somebody who's yours same level. I

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Speaker 2: So now you're laughing at the tennis courts, right, this

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Speaker 5: My my one true love. But yeah, now I can

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Speaker 2: How is that grind growing up?

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Speaker 3: Because it's such a lonely sport and so talk about

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Speaker 3: that for a second, just for tennis players, for people

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Speaker 3: that's that's really hard to kind of.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's been way more

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Speaker 4: talked about now kind of the mental health aspect of tennis.

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Speaker 4: It is, like you said, it's a super lonely and

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Speaker 4: competitive sport. You have to take it serious from such

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Speaker 4: a young age, like I was homeschooled when I was

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Speaker 4: ten just to be able to train, you know, longer hours,

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Speaker 4: and my parents and I knew from a young age

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Speaker 4: have to sacrifice so much in tennis to be professional

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Speaker 4: and to make it. It's a lonely sport. Like you said,

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Speaker 4: only top one hundred players are able to make a living,

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Speaker 4: and from tennis everyone else is just you're really grinding

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Speaker 4: and sacrificing for little to no money.

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Speaker 5: I would say, as wasn't my experience. It gives you

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Speaker 4: You're able to travel all around the world, which I've

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Speaker 4: traveled to thirty eight countries because of tennis, which is amazing.

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Speaker 4: But it is such a grind and so many injuries.

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Speaker 4: Just yeah, overall grind.

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Speaker 2: Give me the country you like the most.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, country I have like the most. I've been going

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Speaker 4: to Vietnam a lot lately for pickable Actually.

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Speaker 5: Right, I love Vietnam. I will say that it's been

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Speaker 2: Give me the country that you never want to go

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Speaker 5: I'm going back, but yeah.

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Speaker 2: But you don't want to go back.

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Speaker 3: You're going back because you're being forced to go back

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Speaker 3: because there's a tournament there.

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Speaker 5: Probably I went back to India.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say I'm super excited about it, but yeah, they're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna boo you now. I'm just put you in such

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Speaker 5: I didn't love it, but yeah, I have to go back.

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Speaker 3: Okay, can you take us through this journey because I

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Speaker 3: find it fascinating someone who set out to be a

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Speaker 3: tennis player and pickleball comes along. Was there a moment

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Speaker 3: for you where you said, hey, I want to pursue this.

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Speaker 3: I can be great at this thing.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was last year March. I was playing my

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Speaker 5: I was just there for doubles because I.

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Speaker 4: Have had pretty bad knee problems which prevented me from

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Speaker 5: And it was going really, really well.

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Speaker 4: I was in top almost close to top one hundred

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Speaker 5: I was having good time.

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Speaker 4: But I saw so many of my friends who were

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Speaker 4: transitioning from pickaball up from tennis to Pickaball and we're

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Speaker 4: trying to convince me to come over and I was like,

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Speaker 4: absolutely not. I cannot do that. I will not do that.

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Speaker 4: And I just saw the financial aspect, I want to say,

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Speaker 5: I knew a lot of my friends.

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Speaker 4: They were, you know, sharing intimate details with me about

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Speaker 5: And pick a Ball.

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh, it's such a difference

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Speaker 5: Get to a tournament.

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Speaker 4: The stringing at every aspect of tennis is so expensive,

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Speaker 4: and I was, you know, getting to an agehe I

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Speaker 4: was like, you know, I want to have financial freedom

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Speaker 4: sacrificing so much to do. So in that last tournament,

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Speaker 4: I remember I lost first round, like tennant in the

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Speaker 4: third and I was it was really hitting me the

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Speaker 4: amount of money I'd spent just to get there and

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Speaker 4: I'd received nothing, and I was like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: I think I need to switch it up. My knees

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Speaker 4: breaking point in tennis. So that was when I decided,

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Speaker 4: you know what, the second I get home, I'm going to.

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Speaker 5: Start training pickleball. And I did just that and just

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Speaker 5: took off from there.

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Speaker 2: So this has been a blessing for you.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, really, yes, it has been. I'm so happy

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Speaker 3: What's the most misunderstood thing about pickleball? Because I think

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Speaker 3: people feel like it's a dull ping pong gets easy, anyone.

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Speaker 5: Can do the most. Miss.

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Speaker 3: I'm one of those people, by the way, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm going to challenge you to a match

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to play in the summer.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little bit too old, it's a little bit

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Speaker 3: too hot at but I am going to challenge you

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Speaker 3: to a match. I'm thinking like December sixty five degrees,

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Speaker 5: Miss misunderstood.

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Speaker 4: I was the same when I was looking out, you know,

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Speaker 4: looking from the outside of playing tennis, I was like,

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Speaker 4: pickaball just looks so easy. I was like, I never understood.

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Speaker 4: I think the most misunderstand I'm like, why don't they

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Speaker 4: try to hit the other person and finish the point.

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Speaker 4: And then I would go in and try to do

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Speaker 4: that same thing, and you realize that the reflexes in

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Speaker 4: be speeding up any ball. You get killed or you

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Speaker 4: get your partner killed. So I would say that's the

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Speaker 4: most misunderstood, is that the patience and the danking is

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Speaker 3: In terms of like preparation and practice. It's not nearly

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Speaker 3: as much as you were doing for tennis.

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Speaker 2: Correct I do or is it?

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Speaker 5: Well, it just depends. Everybody's different.

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Speaker 4: I do more than a different tennis just because it's

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Speaker 4: easier on the body and it's you know, the hours

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Speaker 5: I'd say I train around four hours a day, which.

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Speaker 4: In tennis I was doing let's say maybe three to four,

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Speaker 4: but it's a lot on your body. With my knees,

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Speaker 4: I wasn't able to train that much in tennis anymore.

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Speaker 4: But since pickleball is a little bit easier. When you drill,

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Speaker 4: you just drill specific things. There's not a lot of

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Speaker 4: movement unless you're playing games. So I mean you can

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Speaker 4: be out there and it's fun, so you can be

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Speaker 4: friends are out there six seven hours a day. That's

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Speaker 4: a little much for me.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, if.

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Speaker 3: Pickle ball never kind of gain the popularity that it has,

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Speaker 3: do you think you'd still be playing tennis, grinding it

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Speaker 5: There's this place called the Fort in Fort Lauderdale.

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Speaker 2: I think you should. Yes, what do you think? What Taylor?

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Speaker 5: Hey, I love that, all right?

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Speaker 3: Because you just want to like pound groundstrokes right, you

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Speaker 2: It was drop shot lob, drop shot lob.

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Speaker 3: He realized that I'm not in good shape and that's

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Speaker 2: What's the uh? First off, I have an idea with you.

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Speaker 5: I would love that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but so but we have to give advice out,

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Speaker 2: Can we do that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think we could definitely do that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what do you get coach? Okay? You are?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? When I see you don't.

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Speaker 4: Give away my tricks and what I do, I can

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Taylor, get on this, okay pickleball podcast.

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Speaker 3: Do you think we'll arrive in a world in a

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Speaker 2: Well, it's also the Norman Boca. You realize.

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Speaker 3: It's also the only bar in America where you could

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I wasn't really going out that much when

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Speaker 2: I was different business.

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Speaker 5: I was different business.

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Speaker 2: I was very much there.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't really there either, I was still traveling.

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Speaker 2: So no, what do you like to do when you're

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I'm a big reader. I love to read.

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Speaker 2: Should buy my books. You got to personal record book? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: check it out.

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Speaker 3: In that personal record book, I have you as the

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Speaker 2: Okay, ever, not in the world ever. Show yes, I will,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just big on traveling really is like my

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Speaker 3: So when you say travel, is it to a place

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Speaker 3: Roger Feeder, Roger really Foo Why?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: He was just my idol growing up, since I was

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Speaker 5: I have. Yeah, anytime I see him, I cry, it's yeah.

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Speaker 2: I have you seen him?

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Speaker 2: Did you cry?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

448
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,040
Speaker 5: Yes? It was very embarrassing. I have pictures. Yeah, I know.

449
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,840
Speaker 2: Wait upon meeting Roger Feederer, you started weeping.

450
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Speaker 4: I when I was younger, when I started eight. You know,

451
00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,240
Speaker 4: I'm from Miami, so I would go to well sony

452
00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,640
Speaker 4: Erickson back then. Now it's Miami Open, but I would

453
00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,120
Speaker 4: go every single year. I was there from eight am

454
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,680
Speaker 4: till closing, and I would literally just wait. My dad

455
00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,239
Speaker 4: he had a friend who worked there, so he'd give

456
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Speaker 4: him an in on the schedule of the training, so

457
00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,240
Speaker 4: I knew exactly when he was going to train, and

458
00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,760
Speaker 4: I would show up an hour early just to have

459
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Speaker 4: the spot right when he would come out of the

460
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Speaker 4: locker room. Every single time since yeah, since I was

461
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Speaker 4: eight years old. I just have always had an obsession

462
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Speaker 4: with That's a nice.

463
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Speaker 2: Job by dad.

464
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:21,240
Speaker 5: I know.

465
00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:22,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, a bit stalkish, but.

466
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say best moment of my life and

467
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Speaker 4: with Roger. I I played Wimbledon and I went to

468
00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,000
Speaker 4: the Wimbledon ball as a junior and I took a

469
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Speaker 4: picture with him that year he won Wimbledon when I

470
00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,120
Speaker 4: was there and I took a picture of him at

471
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Speaker 4: the ball all dressed up.

472
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Speaker 5: He was in a suit. It is the best moment

473
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Speaker 5: of my life.

474
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Speaker 2: Was it? Everything you expected.

475
00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,400
Speaker 5: Yes, really and more and more.

476
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Speaker 3: Wait a second, did you so you're setting up to

477
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,120
Speaker 3: take a picture?

478
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Speaker 2: Are you crying?

479
00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,199
Speaker 4: I had already met him three times that week in

480
00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,040
Speaker 4: the locker room, like in the gym time each time,

481
00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,520
Speaker 4: so I was like, oh my god, this man.

482
00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,919
Speaker 5: I'm sure he remembers me, and this is gonna be sombare.

483
00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,040
Speaker 4: Every time I would come up to him, I was like, hey,

484
00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:03,480
Speaker 4: can I get another picture?

485
00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 2: And was he like, oh the crier again? Probably? It

486
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:07,240
Speaker 2: was so.

487
00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,320
Speaker 4: I mean, you know him, he's so classy. I'm sure

488
00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,960
Speaker 4: he doesn't say it, but I'm sure he was thinking it.

489
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,399
Speaker 3: Put three more on there, though, like Roger Federer, and

490
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,480
Speaker 3: then give me three more tennis players that you would

491
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Speaker 3: put in your mount rushmore of tennis?

492
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,679
Speaker 4: I would say, I love kim Pleister's she was another

493
00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,879
Speaker 4: idol of mine growing up. I would say, Nadal and

494
00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 4: Serena those would be my four.

495
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 3: What do you say to dopes like me who think,

496
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 3: because you know, I watch people play it looks like

497
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,080
Speaker 3: adult ping pong, and I say, hey, I could beat you,

498
00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:37,760
Speaker 3: get a lot?

499
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,480
Speaker 2: Do you yeah? What do you say to them?

500
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,040
Speaker 5: I said, sure, let's bet on it. I make some

501
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:42,440
Speaker 5: money on.

502
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,000
Speaker 2: Really, Oh, now I have a better idea. I mean,

503
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,359
Speaker 2: we can run some game out of the local public.

504
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,280
Speaker 6: I was going to ask, have you ever gone to

505
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,560
Speaker 6: a court and like maybe pretended I'm not that good

506
00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,480
Speaker 6: at tennis or not that good at pick a ball?

507
00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 6: And then the game starts and it's like, okay, well.

508
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 4: The idea that I now anytime I have these encounters

509
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,639
Speaker 4: with these older people who want to, you know, create problems,

510
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 4: so let's bet on let's let's play a game and

511
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 4: whoever wins gets to stay on the court, and that's it.

512
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 5: Let's bet on it instead.

513
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,840
Speaker 2: You know, have you bet actual money?

514
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 4: Though I have before, not with those people, but I

515
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,200
Speaker 4: have maybe twice with these like four point five level guys,

516
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 4: right yeah, that I've been invited to. So I was like,

517
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 4: you know what, I'll go. If they're going to put

518
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,480
Speaker 4: the money down, I'll have to put anything.

519
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 5: I'll go.

520
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 6: And then especially if you drop a couple of early

521
00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,159
Speaker 6: points and then you're like you have let's let's just

522
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 6: double it.

523
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Speaker 4: Well just say, oh, she's just the singles players you

524
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 4: can't be that good at.

525
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 3: But it's all about the warm ups. You have to

526
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,359
Speaker 3: be awful in warm ups, right, are you down with

527
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 3: this idea? We're going to go to like a local

528
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 3: public pickleball ford. Okay, I'll pretend that I'm like the

529
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 3: big guy, I'm good, right, and you're like a long yeah.

530
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Speaker 2: This is the first time you've ever played.

531
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Speaker 6: I think this is the plot to White Men Can't jump.

532
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,919
Speaker 2: It is and the color of money, I believe.

533
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 5: I mean, that's an issue of mine.

534
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Speaker 4: I've been told that I look like such a tennis

535
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 4: player the way I walk, the way I do everything,

536
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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to like switch it up so

537
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 4: they think I've never played a racket score before.

538
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 3: You need to show up to the pickleball courts with

539
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 3: a tennis racket.

540
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh for something like shoty

541
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 4: pickleball paddle.

542
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 5: I'll walk in there and be.

543
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,880
Speaker 3: Like my first time you go out to these courts

544
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 3: and there are there are there are guys right who

545
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 3: are dressed to the nines. They think they're pros, right,

546
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 3: they can easily. We're gonna do this.

547
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 5: I'm down. This would be super fun.

548
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 3: I will yes, I'm gonna front all the money, okay,

549
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 3: fit eighty twenty my way, just so you know, right,

550
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 3: I like, no, don't.

551
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 2: Agree to that. I believe your agency are going what

552
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 2: the hell are you doing?

553
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 5: It's still gonna be fun. I'm down for any all.

554
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 2: Right, So we're gonna do this.

555
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 3: We'll pretend that I'm the Roger Federer of pickleball. Okay,

556
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 3: and that this is your first time ever playing.

557
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 5: Okay, No, any paddle company? Do you what paddle?

558
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 3: Don't bring a paddle, don't bring it. In fact, now

559
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 3: that I'm thinking about it, don't even bring a tennis racket.

560
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: Just show up up right with borrow?

561
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 5: Can I borrow one of your paddles? I don't have one.

562
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 2: You'll be jogging, Let me use one. You're your spare padel.

563
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 6: You'll be jogging in the park. Still will point to

564
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 6: you and say we could win with her.

565
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 2: Right.

566
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 3: You have to be off in the distances, right, like

567
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 3: off in a corner.

568
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 6: He is the car.

569
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 2: I am. I am the car. Con No, but this

570
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 2: is how you do it, Okay. You're lonely, you're off

571
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 2: in the corner.

572
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 3: You're contemplating life, you're thinking about what you're gonna do

573
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 3: in the future, and.

574
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: I'm just looking around.

575
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can beat the two of you with anybody, anybody,

576
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:27,400
Speaker 3: and I.

577
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Speaker 5: Point to you somewhere in the mo I've seen this

578
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 5: before one movie.

579
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: Many movies have been made.

580
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 5: I've seen something like this before.

581
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 3: Well, you and I are about to make one. We're

582
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 3: gonna do this because this is a better for me.

583
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 3: It's a better idea than playing you one on one

584
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Speaker 3: and pick a ball, because I.

585
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 2: Know how that's gonna end. The other idea ends with

586
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Speaker 2: us having a lot of money and I have eighty

587
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,239
Speaker 2: percent of What club are we going? You tell me,

588
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 2: I don't.

589
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 5: I don't know you're from You're.

590
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 3: Well from Parkland. I mean we go to my club.

591
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: Everyone thinks. Everyone thinks of the agacy of pickleball at

592
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 3: my club.

593
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 2: They all do.

594
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 3: Are you surprised it's become like such a family like

595
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: families are playing. It's bringing families together this sport, right.

596
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 4: I mean, I see a lot of arguments with families

597
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 4: on court. But I do feel like it's like an

598
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 4: easy and fun thing for families to do together.

599
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 3: And Bob, are you telling me that I think it's

600
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 3: bringing families together and you're telling me it's splitting them apart.

601
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 5: It's like a bonding experience. It's like fighting, but.

602
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 4: You know, you got to work together to be I

603
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 4: don't know your dad and your sister. I've gone into

604
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 4: fights with my my sister playing pickleball.

605
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 5: She doesn't like when I slice or do certain things.

606
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 5: She's like, play for real. I'm like, this is playing

607
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 5: for real. I'm just trying to beat you.

608
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 2: Oh you're doing the dink and doing yeah, exactly.

609
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 5: She doesn't like the slice. She hates it. So, yeah,

610
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 5: it does. It creates fights, but it's still fun.

611
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 2: Your sister's playing the number one player in the world.

612
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 2: She knows she's gonna.

613
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 4: Lose rights, absolutely not. She goes in there and she's like, oh,

614
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 4: I don't know. She's like, I'm beating you. Every time

615
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,719
Speaker 4: she wants to beat me. She thinks she can beat

616
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 4: me in anything. So it's it's pretty funny at least.

617
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 3: Can you describe for people, because you've you've had so

618
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: much experience around this sport, what this super serious pickleball

619
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 3: guy is like, like when that guy approaches the court,

620
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking.

621
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Speaker 5: About, right, Oh my god.

622
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. I would say in a lot of these, like moneyballs,

623
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 4: there's a lot of those types of guys who come

624
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 4: in and they're like.

625
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 5: They they should talk on court.

626
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 4: That's like the number one thing that's so different from tennis,

627
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 4: like the etiquette, Like it's so common in pick a

628
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 4: ball for people to like trash talk each other on court,

629
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 4: to like getting getting your heads. And when I first started,

630
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 4: I was so not used to that. So I would

631
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 4: see that. I was like, Oh, that guy so rude,

632
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 4: or that guy, what's wrong with that guy? But it's

633
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 4: like the norm and pickleball, you like try to get in.

634
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 4: People says, I don't do it, but I know a

635
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 4: lot of people who do. And I would say, like

636
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 4: that is like the typical guy who's like not great

637
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 4: but will come in. He's like he can beat anybody

638
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 4: starts trash talking.

639
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 5: It's so typical.

640
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 4: The more they talk, they yeah, and they'll just like

641
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 4: come out of nowhere like it's like a super friendly match,

642
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 4: all good. And then they start saying like the most

643
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 4: random things trying to trash talk.

644
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 5: You're like, dude, I'm up eleven zero right now. Yeah,

645
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 5: they're so trying. It's it's the norm.

646
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 3: Uh that is that is really funny. I am stuck

647
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 3: on your sister thinking that she could beat you. She

648
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 3: has no idea about your talent.

649
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 5: Do you have a sibling, that's like the most common

650
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 5: thing I do.

651
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a brother, but my brother knows

652
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna beat him with everything.

653
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 5: I think she knows, but she's never gonna admit that.

654
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 5: She's gonna come in there confident every time. One day I'll.

655
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 3: Slip up, you know, Yes, what is the super serious

656
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 3: tennis player like, because that's worse, that's a worst.

657
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 4: Like you said the ten rackets in the bag all

658
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 4: new Nike fit, all new Nike bag.

659
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 5: I would say the.

660
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: Headband blames his mis hits on the strings. The tension

661
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 2: is wrong, always staring at the racket.

662
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I say the headband with like the little man

663
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 4: butt on, that's like the most Yeah.

664
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 3: So have you lost your composure at any at any

665
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 3: point during a pickupball match and just said shit, I'm

666
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 3: gonna let it fly and start talking trash to someone.

667
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 4: No, No, I have never. I mean anybody who knows me.

668
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 4: On core, I'm very well. I would say singles, I'm

669
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 4: very serious. Doubles I'm more expressive, but I just have

670
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 4: that like tennis, I like to BacT, you know, my

671
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 4: opponents and the sport.

672
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: I'm not like your game. Did the talking?

673
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm not a talker, not at all.

674
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 6: No, Stu, I have a sad update for you. Tavern

675
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 6: in the Grove closed Sunday, January nineteenth, twenty twenty.

676
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 2: Oh okay, twenty twenty. Long time. It's a sad day.

677
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 6: It's been a while since.

678
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 5: You've been down the date on on the tavern.

679
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: It's a sad day for me. I was gonna go

680
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 2: in fact, just talking about it.

681
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 3: Maybe want to go down there? Have a heater inside?

682
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna do this, all right. I

683
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 3: don't know what's the better idea, Taylor, What do you

684
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 3: like here? Is it me and her playing one on

685
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 3: one singles match? Or is it us coming to a

686
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 3: park and taking everyone's cash?

687
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 6: It's the hustling.

688
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: It's a sad dog. Are you down for a pick

689
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 2: a ball hustle?

690
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,719
Speaker 5: Yeah? I really that's a really good idea. I think

691
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 5: it'd be really funny.

692
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: All right. Can we identify the park though? Like we

693
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 2: have to? Uh?

694
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 5: Should we do a country club or a part? I

695
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 5: feel like a countrylub's gonna be harder?

696
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, can we scout out? Like?

697
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 4: And I'm not gonna lie I get recognized sometimes now

698
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 4: when I go to these country clubs and.

699
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 2: Stuff, do you really really is that weird for you?

700
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 4: It is so weird, like to have that in pick

701
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 4: a ball, not in tennis. I have maybe in the

702
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 4: I think a park would be better.

703
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 2: Well, what are they doing those things?

704
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 5: Your sofia, right, especially when I go down to the

705
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 5: fort too, You're a rock star there because there's so

706
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 5: many tournaments.

707
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 4: There's so many tournaments there that I've played in and

708
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 4: I always do well there. So yeah, I think you know,

709
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 4: they do a good job of streaming the events now

710
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 4: and it's like you said, it's become so popular now

711
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 4: people really watch it.

712
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's it's getting there.

713
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 3: What's what's the difference from from the day you started

714
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 3: until right now? What's the difference in prize money? It's

715
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 3: gone up like significantly.

716
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I didn't start. I started last year, like

717
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 4: playing competitively, I would say last summer, so it's been

718
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 4: like a year now. But app I started six months

719
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 4: ago really, so I know that there's been a difference

720
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 4: in prize money, but that was from like two years ago,

721
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 4: so that was before I started. But I've been told

722
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 4: by a lot of players like the significant difference. They've

723
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 4: made significant changes. It's become a lot more professional. Like

724
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 4: the aspect, the structure of everything is very different. But

725
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 4: I came in now when everything like in the change already.

726
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 5: I would say, all right.

727
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 3: You and I walk out to a court today, how

728
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 3: long is the match going to take?

729
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 5: Singles or doubles?

730
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: Singles?

731
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 5: What are you doing rally scoring? We're doing regularly.

732
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about.

733
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 4: Let's say regular scoring two s two games to eleven,

734
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: two out of three, to eleven.

735
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: Two games to eleven, okay, two out of three.

736
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 4: I'd say, you play tennis.

737
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: I've played tennis.

738
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 3: I'm also where do you play? I've played tennis. I

739
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 3: play ping pong. I'm excellent at ping pong.

740
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 2: Really, you also returned to serve from Riley Opelka.

741
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: Yes, with a cigarette? My math right, Oh my gosh,

742
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 3: I did that. It was one hundred and twenty seven

743
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: miles per hour.

744
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: Can you believe it? And I won the points.

745
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 5: I mean that Riley serves hard. I'd say thirty minutes.

746
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 5: I could say thirty minutes.

747
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: Thirty minutes, I was thinking short, thirty minutes dead.

748
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 5: You have time outs, pickable he gets high. Man, that insane?

749
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 5: Is that not crazy? You get two timeouts per game?

750
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: Do you really? Do you get a twenty or do

751
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: you get a minute?

752
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 5: A minute timeout?

753
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 2: Really?

754
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 4: Which is that was a big change for the first

755
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: time I ever went and played a pick a ball tournament.

756
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 5: I didn't even look up the rules.

757
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 4: I was like, it just has to be like tennis, right,

758
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 4: and the girl just she just puts her paddle on

759
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 4: the floor and just walks like to the side, and

760
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 4: I was like, oh am, I winning right now by retirement.

761
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 4: So like I went up like ready to like shake

762
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 4: her hand, and the rest like is this time out?

763
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 5: And I was like, what are you talking about? What's

764
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 5: the time out? They had to explain it to me.

765
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 4: I also lost various points in my first tournament because

766
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: in pick aball you're not allowed to serve while the ref.

767
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 5: Is saying the score.

768
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 4: You lose the points, right, And so she would like,

769
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 4: you know, in tennis, you go based on your own time,

770
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 4: you bounce the ball, you go and serve, right, it

771
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 4: is what it is, and they call the score in

772
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 4: tennis right after the points over and pick a ball

773
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 4: it's different. So like when you go up to the line,

774
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 4: you ready to serve, I go and I serve and

775
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 4: she's like, oh, two to one. And in the middle

776
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 4: of my serv she's like loss of point.

777
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 5: And I was like, what are you talking about? So

778
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 5: if you're not allowed to, I lost.

779
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: That you're serving and then decides to announce the score.

780
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 4: You have to wait for them to say the score

781
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 4: and then you can serve. If you say it while

782
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 4: they're saying the score, you lose it. If you serve

783
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 4: before they're saying the score, you can redo the serve.

784
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 5: It's it's very weird.

785
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: It is weird.

786
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the timeouts are you using them sometimes just

787
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: because you're tired you want to stop momentum momentum.

788
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 4: Moly, I've used a couple being tired. I really don't

789
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 4: use them in singles at all.

790
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 5: Doubles is rarely where I use it because it is

791
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 5: very important, like if the momentum can.

792
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 4: Switch so fast doubles, so I will say, you have

793
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 4: to use it very strategically. I've been improving in that

794
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 4: because everybody tell me before you I never would use

795
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 4: my timeouts, and they're like that's so bad. You have to,

796
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 4: Like it really can switch, you know, the energy and

797
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 4: the momentum in a game, it's really important.

798
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 5: Pickawall's fast.

799
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 4: So if you're down six to so already in five minutes,

800
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 4: I would say, hey, take a time out, right, give

801
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 4: a minute second.

802
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: NBA team getting off to a ten nothing run and

803
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 3: the coaches time out quickly, then say, yeah, stop the momentum.

804
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 5: Yeahlementum.

805
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 4: Be able to talk with your partner about any changes

806
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 4: you want to make, make the other people think a

807
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 4: little bit more.

808
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 5: It's just it's important to take them all.

809
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: Right, I am, I'm very except thirty minutes. She's giving

810
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: me way too much. Fred. I mean I would be

811
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: off that court in fourteen second, yes, right on.

812
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 5: The heat right now.

813
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 4: I don't know how long. I don't even think I

814
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 4: would last. I only train inside right now because it's too.

815
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 3: Oh so you're with me on the summer, right, Yeah,

816
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: so we do this in the If we play inside,

817
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 3: I can.

818
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: Play you anytime inside. I have no idea if we're

819
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: indoor court.

820
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's really I train in an indoor facility every day.

821
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: Really, this thing is taken over.

822
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 4: I know.

823
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you.

824
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 5: I can't train outside right now. It's way too hot.

825
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: Really, Oh my gosh, you know it's taking over in

826
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: a way that that I'm uncomfortable with because I think

827
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: I heard no, I'm serious. I think it was John

828
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 3: or Patrick McEnroe, who live right down the street from

829
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 3: me growing up Port Washington Tennis Academy, their coach Tony Palifax.

830
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 3: At a court in the backyard. You would hear McEnroe

831
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: like grunting, grunting. He was working, but he was lonely, right,

832
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 3: And I heard them having a conversation where I think

833
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: it was Patrick saying, if I had to do it

834
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 3: all over again and pickleball was as big then as

835
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 3: it is now, I probably would have never played tennis.

836
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a sad day.

837
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 4: Man.

838
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 5: That's a strong statement. That's a really strong statement.

839
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: This is one of the best doubles players in the world.

840
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: Patrick mcinrope.

841
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 5: That's a strong statement, right. I mean, I wouldn't change

842
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 5: the way I started. I love tennis. Tennis brought me

843
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 5: so much, I would say in life, and like.

844
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 4: I meant, it got me a picture of feder If I

845
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 4: will say like it also, you know, transitioning from tennis

846
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 4: to pick a ball, it's not the easiest obviously, Like

847
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 4: especially doubles it's a completely different game, but it does

848
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 4: give you a lot of you know, the skill set

849
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 4: that you need for pickleball without having.

850
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 5: To learn, you know, all over again from a young age.

851
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 4: Like I see some of the five year olds, like

852
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 4: we were talking about the five year olds playing and

853
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 4: they have all these strokes, and I'm like, you know,

854
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 4: if I had to come into pick a ball with

855
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 4: no prior racket sport experience, I don't know. So I

856
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 4: have so much Like sometimes I'm in all of a

857
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: lot of these players that could be with They play

858
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: and they have beautiful shows and they've never played tennis

859
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 4: in their life.

860
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 5: They come from different sports. I'm like, wow, I don't

861
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 5: know if I could do that at this age.

862
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: So if we play, can I use a tennis racket?

863
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 5: No?

864
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: What do you mean would that be an advantage for me?

865
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: I don't think no. I just think it would be impossible. Really,

866
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 5: you know how that would work?

867
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: I mean why, because the ball coming off the racket,

868
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 3: off the strings is not gonna work right.

869
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 5: It's a plastic.

870
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: It would be Can I have a racket the size

871
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: of a tennis racket is what.

872
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 5: I'm no, that doesn't exist?

873
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: Really, Well, what if I make one though, I mean.

874
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 5: You can make one. Okay, that would be interesting.

875
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be fun to try. I've never done it,

876
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 4: but that would be fun to try.

877
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 3: Okay, So we're well, listen, we're gonna do this one

878
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 3: on one.

879
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: We could do it inside.

880
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 3: I want to do the hustle as well, Okay, Okay,

881
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 3: that we need to do outside because you need to

882
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 3: be lonely in a park, off in the corner, picking

883
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: at a fence and doing nothing.

884
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I could win with her.

885
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 5: Okay, I like that. I really like that. That would

886
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 5: be really fun.

887
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: And I was teasing seventy thirty my way. You just

888
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 3: I'll give you ten percent.

889
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Speaker 2: Aga you already said yes, it's I mean, he is

890
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Speaker 2: outraged right now. This has been a lot of fun.

891
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Speaker 2: Thank you for doing this.

892
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Speaker 3: We're going to start a pick a ball podcast because

893
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 3: there is one now in the top one hundred tailor.

894
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: You notice that a pick a ball podcast. That's how

895
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: much interest it has. But if we have the best

896
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Speaker 3: player in the world doing a pickaball podcast, then we're

897
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Speaker 3: really onto something.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think we would be a step ahead of everybody else.

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Speaker 3: The number one player in the world and me the

901
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Speaker 3: number five player in the world. Yes, a couple of

902
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 3: pick a ball players got it up. That's the name

903
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Speaker 3: of it. Taylor, Sophia, thank you so much. You are great,

904
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Speaker 3: good luck moving forward here. I'm so glad you found

905
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Speaker 3: this because it seems like you, you know, you were

906
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Speaker 3: coming to an end with your tennis career, and then

907
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 3: lo and behold, here comes a brand new career for you.

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Speaker 5: It's crazy how your life shan me so much in

909
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Speaker 5: just one year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so thankful to this sport.

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Speaker 4: It seems like, yeah, I'm not just having so much fun.

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Speaker 4: I never thought, you know, that I could have. You know,

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Speaker 4: when you're in tennis, like we talked about the mental

914
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Speaker 4: health ask, you never really see a life outside of

915
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 4: that because it's all you've ever known. So, you know,

916
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Speaker 4: being able to look back at where I was mentally

917
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Speaker 4: a year ago to now, I'm like, wow, it's just

918
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Speaker 4: so different.

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Speaker 5: So aunt blessed, Like you said, it's it's been so fun.

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Speaker 2: You have a new life, new career. That's awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm happy for you. Congratulations on all your success.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Tell those people who bother you at any accords dinner, anything,

924
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Speaker 3: tell me to shut the floor guy like.

925
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 2: Enough, oh much private time for something.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you appreciate.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate. I look forward to a seventy thirty split.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, guys,