Celebs in Pickleball, Fighter Turned Fanatic & Court Debates | Shawn Paul w/ Shawn Paul Pickleball

Tom Brady owns a pickleball team?! From tequila to sports franchises, celebs seem to have their hands in everything—but is this good for pickleball, or just another hype train?

We’re breaking it down and welcoming Shawn Paul, Pickleball Coordinator at the North Royalton Ohio YMCA, to talk about his journey from fighter to pickleball fanatic, how the sport changed his life, and why the pickleball community is like no other.

Plus, we debate music on the courts, a pickleball dating app, and whether celebrity-owned teams are a win or a disaster in Dink or Destroy.

🎧 Tune in now and let us know—are celeb teams a good thing, or is this pickleball’s crypto moment?

Chapters

• 0:32 Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week
• 6:01 Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer
• 18:26 Dink or Destroy- This-or-that debate: Love it or trash it?
• 24:24 Found, Heard & Learned
• 32:35 Wrap-Up & CTA - Final thoughts, shoutouts, and how to engage with us

Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:01.154)
This is Big Dink Energy, the pickleball podcast that's half insight, half nonsense, and all entertainment. If you love pickleball, don't take yourself too seriously and think a little trash talk makes the game better. Welcome home. This is the place where life and pickleball intersect. We celebrate the chaos, call out the nonsense, and put the fun back in dysfunction. You're either in or you're out. And if you're still listening, you're in. So let's go.

Big Dink Energy starts now. Welcome back to another episode of Big Dink Energy, where we bring you a little bit of life, a little bit about pickleball and a whole lot of unscripted fun. I'm glad you're joining us again. So I'm going to get into something here. It's kind of near and dear to my heart, too. And it's not really a hot take or anything like that. Just something I was thinking about. And I saw this come across the other day when I was doing some research. Celebrities owning pickleball teams like Tom Brady owns a pickleball team.

That's crazy.

It started with tequila and now they're trying to take over pickleball. I don't know.

Celebrities own everything.

Speaker 2 (01:10.048)
So are they jumping on it? Is it a bandwagon? Is it like the crypto thing where they jumped on?

Are they just chasing a trend or do they really like the sport?

I just think it shows the growth of the sport because a couple years ago, a pickleball team went for like $100,000 and now they're going for like 10 million.

Millions of dollars. Millions. mean, like I said, Tom Brady's involved.

So like the average person can't sponsor a pickleball team. You have to have that kind of income before you can even begin to think about doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:40.494)
I can't even imagine like the behind the scenes are they trading players like like baseball cards. You know what I mean?

Right, is there going be a pickleball draft?

waiting for keeping up with keeping up with the Dinkdashians or something. Is that where we're headed?

reality show I actually think there is one in the world

I think there is two Adam not Adam Sandler Zoolander who plays Ben Stiller. Yeah, I think I saw that

Speaker 2 (02:00.525)
yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's the, no, he's doing the next iteration of dodgeball. It's going to be pickleball. That's what it is.

No, I did see that there's going to be a reality show. It's like they're calling it a mixture of like Survivor and The Bachelor. Yes.

with Peek-A-Ball.

So.

Speaker 2 (02:20.63)
I can't wait for them to call me. I'm sure that call is coming in any day. Not for the bachelor's side, obviously, but for the just good looking people.

I guess the owning of teams I can see but I think the celebrity like if if we start to see like $500 Taylor Swift paddle, I'm done

that's coming. That's I'm just done. But you know, when I saw Tom Brady, I'm like, what is it? Just a trophy you don't already have, Tom? Is that what it is? Is why you're getting involved?

That's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (02:48.238)
You have your $800,000 watch from the Super Bowl. He's to have an $800,000 paddle next time.

You need be involved in something else.

Yeah, like, hey, dude, you're winning at life. Come on, let us have a ball. Let us step back. Let us just a little bit. The bar was low enough for me to get in and call myself an athlete. But stepping it up, Mr. Dipple Chen. I'm a Tom Brady fan. I'm a Patriots fan. all probably know that. So I mean, I'm kind of in but

gosh.

Speaker 3 (03:13.8)
too.

You just naming people I don't know?

What are some of the other celebs that maybe we think should own a pickleball team that would make maybe a little bit more fun?

I don't follow celebrities. I don't even know who people are.

I'm not big on celebrities.

Speaker 4 (03:32.568)
So I wouldn't even know who to choose. Like I would be like Chevy Chase. Like that's how old I think.

Now here's

That was the first like could you imagine

Of course you were. No, she's too busy in all her 85 sitcoms. Why is she in like 95 sitcoms?

The next one, Happy's Place. I am obsessed with Happy's Place.

Speaker 2 (03:54.318)
I've never heard somebody with a worse speech impediment get

We are so sidebar right now, this is why we call her paddle princess because literally she is the 100 % opposite of us. Like anytime that advertisement comes on for Happy's Place, Guy and I are like, my God. we can't say that.

Peace.

I it!

No, so I'm looking like Martha Stewart's going to drop a line of paddles for. yes. Yeah. So Snoop's and everything, T-Mobile and everything. So Snoop is going to be D-O double dink. There's going to be rolling papers. There's going to be low riders with pickleball. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So that said, I mean, what other celebrity and OK, now here's the you know what voiceover is going to be for every pickleball high dollar match.

Speaker 4 (04:17.326)
Turn Snoop!

Speaker 4 (04:23.822)
I mean, I would buy that.

Speaker 3 (04:31.819)
handle wraps. Yeah.

I mean, I can see it.

Speaker 2 (04:43.744)
Morgan Freeman is gonna come out there. That dude is voice.

He is 85 five times over. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, like for sure

Yeah, he's, yeah, when I saw that, you know, obviously the Tom Brady thing piqued my interest, but then I started thinking, well, what other celebrities would be cool to watch own a team and see what kind of spin, pun intended, they would put on it for sure.

But I think it's different between having a celebrity who has an endorsement in equipment and who is putting on equipment versus somebody who actually owns a team.

They have a lot more invested. They just didn't make their makeup line and put their name on it. Exactly. It's like, know what you're white labeling, thank you. But, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:27.808)
Now, I mean, you know, it does raise the pickleball community, I guess, into the eyes of people who maybe aren't seeing it. But, you know, let's let's calm it down just a minute. You know what mean? The bar was low. I could get into this sport and call myself an athlete. But now we've got million dollar teams being traded.

Blows up too fast, I don't know if it's just gonna fizzle. And I don't want it to fizzle, I want it to be around for a while.

Yeah, that's just what I wanted to bring. just piqued my interest when I it. Interesting. Yeah, awesome, thanks.

Tick-Tock!

Speaker 2 (06:03.544)
Sean, we're so glad to have you here. I'm here with Sean Paul, not the Sean Paul you, rapper you may be all thinking about, but my buddy Sean Paul who plays pickleball.

it a lot like a lot

I bet you do. You're out there in Cleveland, Ohio, and you've got a lot of things going on out there for not only Pickleball, but man, I gotta get into this backstory. I'm just gonna pull the curtain back right away. Sean was homeless, unhoused for a little while, so man, let's hear about that,

But you know, and I'm glad you asked that because I don't know if you, there was a magazine called Voyage Ohio that did an article on me. And of course I didn't say everything, but now when I'm on the courts, people will read the story. They're like, why were you homeless? So let me get started off right away. No drugs, no alcohol, know, nothing like that. I just made bad decisions and then I'm gonna shelter. So bad decisions over a woman, actually, really.

most bad decisions I find are over women.

Speaker 1 (07:02.126)
Right, right. So, but yeah, wound up in a shelter and I actually ran a business out of the shelter.

So Pickleball came in at some point, right? And to your life when you were doing this, when you're trying to figure things out after, mean, we're all one bad decision away from being where you were for sure. So yeah, how did Pickleball come into this?

Absolutely.

Well, I used to be a fighter, so I lived a violent life and I happened to be in Jackson, Ohio on business in 2015 and I'm an ex-tennis player. So right across the street from my hotel was a YMCA with tennis, beautiful tennis courts. Nobody played tennis. And then this old guy kept coming up to me and saying, hey, it's a pickleball. And I'm like, that was dumb. I never heard of it. I never heard of this dumb sport. And I'm like, no. And I would walk over there every day. It was about tennis rackets on my back and tennis courts.

And I'm telling you now finally I'm talking about like months later months later. I walk in there He's like, why don't you just give it a try and I'm just like I just gave in I'm like, okay, what is this stupid thing? Put that dumb wooden paddle in my hand and next you know by the end of the day I'm like, this is my life The next day I bought a $35 paddle off of Amazon played with it for two years and won a tournament with it And that's when all these pay we could put your name on a paddle Awesome. Yeah

Speaker 2 (08:11.404)
That's how it goes, right? mean...

Speaker 2 (08:23.726)
I used to be a skateboarder too, right?

Right. You know, I was an amateur. Let me tell you something. Say you get me going. Let me tell you something between the eighties and nineties. I was actually an amateur competitive skateboarder. I was sponsored by a company called Reach for the Beat. I don't know if you guys ever had those and where you're from, but I was a guy like at the end of the tournament. So would stand up on the ramps and throw stickers out. Wow. But let me tell you with that. And then the fighting, the fighting was actually I thought if I was going anywhere in life, it was that it was going to be that. And then a car accident retired me.

And then when I found pickleball where I was on one of those assignments and then it came, I mean, like so quick.

Yeah, so you you bring up a good point, what I would like, you know, we have now we have major, major million dollar pickleball teams and Tom Brady owns a team and all this kind of stuff. But when you say, you know, you're standing up there throwing all stickers now I'm getting a vibe for pickleball of like, man, we need to be throwing out stickers. We need t-shirt cannons at pickleball, you know, we definitely got to have the music going.

Where I'm the pickleball coordinator they're out there playing pickleball and I'm actually you know, I thought I check everybody in I think I used to go on and I'm reading a room and I'm just playing songs. I'm like

Speaker 2 (09:34.123)
so now you're a pickleball DJ at your court, that sounds like.

Right exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have a pickleball playlist on my phone So if I have to get out there and play it plays that is again It's reading the room for sure. So I play something up and that's not offensive, you know to everybody so

Yeah, that's the thing. mean, it is a, it's a huge community, know, like-minded people. We're all, you know, we're all there for the sport and, and the gathering, the community, you know, and you meet so many new people that become your friends really fast on a pickleball court.

Man, I mean again, I travel around this country playing pickleball and a lot of places I go I don't know anybody right and then when I get to a court like I was in Atlanta one day I get to the quarter and I marry out while was in Marietta, Georgia and after playing a couple hours with these guys, you Everybody's like so we're standing like I don't get a hotel or like get out of here boy. Come on over here Yeah, it made me wash my clothes

right?

Speaker 4 (10:25.762)
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (10:29.9)
Yeah, that's what it is all really all about. It's those fast friendships. So you guys are in the North Whirlton right there in Cleveland, Ohio, right? YMCA for what you're doing right now,

Yeah, I run the pickleball program over at North Rolton YMCA Center. They actually have a separate building other than YMCA that actually has pickleball courts.

Dang it. How many quarts? Four. Four quarts. Yeah, that's great. That's really good. So in your coordinator duties, what do find yourself doing the most?

Man, helping people. And I do a lot of lessons before before me. They didn't have any really pickleball guidance there. So there was a guy before me, but he he didn't last for whatever his reasons were. So they they've been open since October and I've only been there a few weeks. So they didn't have like any lessons going leagues or clinics. And my higher ups, great people they are. They are pickleballers. know, they were doing best they could with a little bit of knowledge they had, which was just all they had was just open play.

Right. You when I come in, of course, people are like, OK, what are we going to do clinic? So we're getting lessons and things. And I'm like, I it. I got it. I just walked in the door. Let me get on that. Yeah. Everything everything's working. We had our first social last Friday. And we tell you what, everybody loved it. That's what I gave a check. Everybody to meet, talk to me and ask me questions and.

Speaker 2 (11:44.896)
That's awesome. for the YMCA there for you, you're the Pickleball Yoda is how I see it then.

Right, right, right. But again, like I said, my powers there, they're very nice people. And I like the way that they a lot. I've actually been to places before where people are running pickleball programs and don't know what they're doing. Yeah. So won't admit it. At least this guy, my boss, Jeff, when he had my interview, he was spouting off with some pickleball stuff. And I'm like, yeah, that's not really right. And he goes, see, Sean, that's why I need you. I don't know what I'm doing. Makes a difference. know. Yeah. When I get to work and I say something, all I'm expecting to hear is, all right. Yeah.

let me run it, let me run the pickleball, and we're gonna make it as successful. So it's so good to have somebody that's in the ring with you like that, to use a fighter term, know, being your corner person like that, if you will, so you can go out there and just hit those knockouts like you're doing,

is man, and like I said, they're very supportive. You know, in the beginning it was a question or two, but now like balls for one, grabbing balls in there and I'm like, they got these, they've been breaking all, and I'm like, I know what balls we're gonna hit, but then we got the good balls in there now, so everything's working out.

That's awesome. We have a sponsor called Dinkin' Balls, D-I-N-K-N Balls, and we'll have to get you some out there to play with those. They're mediocre balls for mediocre players. That's what they like to say on their tagline. So we'll have to get some out to you out there. So, know, Cleveland has some famous people out there. Has Drew Carey come out to your court yet?

Speaker 1 (13:07.415)
I'd like to subscribe.

Speaker 4 (13:14.19)
That's what I could think of.

No, has, but you know what, believe it or not, we've had famous people pass through here playing, and I've actually gotten pictures with a few. Philip Phillips. I didn't know who he was, and still I took a picture with him, and he's actually a pretty good player. After we played a couple games, he told me, he didn't tell me who he was, he was just like, yeah, Philip Phillips, I played music, and I'm like, all right, can I get a picture? Because I get a picture, I get pictures with everybody. When he left, everybody's like, hey, you know who that was? I'm like, no, no, who was? And then even when they told me, I'm still like, okay.

Apparently he won American Idol. Then there was another dude who was at the Playhouse Square. I can't remember his name. He was in town and he was playing some Broadway yoke. Sure. But yeah, been a few famous ones there.

Yeah, yep, that's right.

Speaker 2 (13:59.416)
Obviously everybody knows LeBron. sure, I don't know why he's not into pickleball yet, but you know, he's just in everything, A connection we have, I did a protection detail. I run a safety and security consulting business on the side too. And I've done some protection details for people, but I protect the kid, Cuddy, a couple of years ago when he was here at Austin and he's from Ohio. So maybe get him.

invested in yeah

Speaker 2 (14:22.658)
We'll give him a shout out right now, Kit Cuddy, go out there to the YMCA in North Royalton and do a little concert on the pickleball court out there for my man Sean.

that be awesome, man. And know that Dirk's baby? I saw him on one of those celebrity shows where like, it was one of those like, know, parody shows and all the other celebrities, they're hitting the ball around. He's actually playing.

That's right, that's right,

Speaker 2 (14:43.596)
yeah, yeah. So if Sean Paul shows up to a court and someone is gonna play some walkout music for you, you know, like a fighter, what are you picking?

That's actually a question. That's actually a great question. It would be, here comes the boom by Nellie. All right.

Okay, all right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm jamming to that as you're walking out now. I'm in your corner for sure. Yep All right. So Shawn, how do people find you? How do people get involved with what you got going on there at the YMCA? How can people are you know our pockets to set up for people that are driving across the country and they just want to get a pickup game going somewhere so people coming through Royalton North Royalton there and they want to get a game going how do they find you guys?

I love Nelly.

Speaker 1 (15:24.618)
Well, you know, I'm say what I say this if you Google Sean Paul pickleball shaw W a fellow right it'll take you to everything I got YouTube Facebook Instagram Tick-tock I mean seriously and then I've actually had players from out of town Contact me and then I where's the best play to place play for certain levels and I've been a host for people Like I'm like if you make it here, you just park in my house and I'll do I'll give you a tour Awesome, those people do it for me

You know people do it for me. So, you know, I've actually hosted people in my home because people have done it for me Yeah, so a friend of mine who was not a pickleball everybody made you just let people you don't know stay in the house But to me pickleball is different is a different world. It is my wife says I don't live in the real world She says that old guy now hold on my wife Lindsay a beautiful wife Lindsay. There you go I gotta say that in that magazine article apparently through the whole article. I refer her to as my supporting wife. All

We got you corrected on that Lindsey. Sean is saying you're beautiful. We believe it

So how long you been playing? Can I ask you that question? Yeah.

Yeah, hey, that's great. So I've only been playing a couple of years. I'm the most mediocre player out there. You know, I'll try anything. and I thought I was kind of like you. I saw it and I'm like, that's just for old people, right? Well, okay, count me in in the old group, I guess, because I love it now. Any chance I get to go play. And that's why we started the podcast to connect people and pickleball all over the United States. So my we love it.

Speaker 1 (16:50.603)
That's great your wife plays right she does you guys play together on the

yeah, yeah. I mean, I got 21 years invested, right? Right. Out here in Texas, my wife is my property, so she has to do whatever I tell her. I'm just messing with you. But when you come through this area, man, we definitely want to hook up, get on the court with you, just hang out, know, have some cold beverages if you want after pickleball. Well, hey, maybe before, then it gets a lot more fun at the...

too competitive for that. I don't wanna be any air, but I'm than that. Hey, can I say one more thing? I wanna mention where I am right now is actually my home pickleball club where I actually got started. I started at a YMC where they taught me. This is the Northridge Real racket and paddle club where I honed my skills. So just wanna thank Northridge Racket and Paddle for everything they've done.

Yes, please.

Speaker 2 (17:35.147)
Okay, that's where it's at.

Speaker 2 (17:39.948)
Well, yeah, we want to let people know about Northridge, Racket and Paddle then for sure. Get them out there. And listen, if you're going through that area of the country, please go see them. And if you see my man, Sean, challenge him to a game, I want to see what you got. Don't bring the smoke.

I don't wanna do that. Hey, then I have to pull out my special powers.

Goodness gracious. Is that you on the paddle? That's awesome, bro. I gotta get me one of those now. Now I'm jealous. All right. Thank you for being on Sean for the BDE podcast Big Dink Energy podcast. We thank you for being on everybody. Please go look up Sean Paul, S-H-A-W-N for Sean Paul Pickleball. He is the pickle baller. Sean, thanks for spending some time with us, bro.

Yeah, it is. That's great.

Speaker 1 (18:18.35)
Hey, this was a very fun, very fun. I appreciate you asking me to do it.

Speaker 1 (18:27.502)
I'm gonna destroy-

Dink or destroy. I love saying that. I don't know why that is. It's probably because of the sound. say. Or destroy. That's a segment where we dink on something, we serve it up and it's good to go. It's a thumbs up for us or destroy it. That's something we just pass on. It's not for us. We don't like it. Thumbs down. And then you can chime in on this to get on our socials and talk about dink or destroy whatever you like, whatever you didn't like and what your hot take was on it. So I've got one.

They had a lot around the house.

Speaker 2 (18:57.022)
that I want to bring to the forefront. And it's near and to my heart because I love it. And I think there should be more of it, but it has to be done in the right way. And that's music on the court, your personal music, music you bring, like a little speaker.

I will bring it all day long. 100 % And I will have a grand old time. Like I absolutely 100 %

sense.

Speaker 2 (19:18.232)
But here's the thing, so with Paddle Princess, it's gotta be done in the right way, because I know she's bringing country.

...in country... You can.

Okay, but I can do all genres.

True, but I just feel like, you know, if you would let me know ahead of time, I would put my Daisy Dukes on.

If you'd let me know ahead of time, could mute it.

Speaker 3 (19:38.474)
But I mean, it just brings another element of fun to the game. It's such a social and fun game, but when you put something out there that you can groove to and you can use your paddles, a microphone and dance around, I mean, it just makes it even more fun.

It's much fun.

Speaker 4 (19:51.906)
For those of you who missed it, she said, groove. Yes. Like, how old are you?

I'm getting up there.

Paddle Princess is our 1800s prospector here. Consarnet.

So, okay, so the real question I think is what's on the playlist?

Yeah, so I mean, that's why I said it's got to be managed in the right way. I'm all for you. You want to play some classic rock where I can turn my paddle into a guitar and shred in between dinks and smashes? Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (20:19.168)
And I also think it matters, if there's eight, nine courts and everybody's got music going, that's not going to be fun. Right. Yeah. You know, so you got to have a little bit of decorum and say, you know, these people are here now, so we need to turn our music down or off, you know. But sometimes you're just playing by yourself with just your friends. It's like, absolutely.

Yeah, this is just me, obviously. I don't want to have to hear the F word every single word while I'm...

And you I'm a huge fan of rap and hip hop. yeah. And I like to play it when I work out. We bring our kids. Yeah, I like to play it in my ear holes, like you would like to say. But I don't think they're the best. I don't think that that's something for everybody to be hearing. I agree. So, I mean, that's where country comes in safe. Classic rock, pretty much safe. You know, or anything on Spotify with explicit turned off. But I mean...

If you're playing WAP, we know what it says. So let's not do that. You know, and choose something just fun. everybody, there's, you know, there's those songs like everybody likes. It doesn't matter. Like you put on, Don't Stop Believing. There's nobody that's going to be like, can you tuck that down? mean, everybody likes that. So, and I kind of feel like if you play that type of music, like old skating rink music and you know, just like.

Everybody likes journey.

Speaker 2 (21:33.45)
excuse your age.

Classic. You know those fist pumping songs. You know where everyone's like, Dad rock. Yeah, like, this is my

Or

Everyone.

Speaker 4 (21:53.134)
What is that type of music? EDM? Yeah. First of all, why do know that? Second of all...

Not to be confused with EMD, is orchestral maneuvers in the dark, which is great.

Never heard of either.

I'm so lost right now.

I've never heard of

Speaker 2 (22:11.15)
That's unique to you.

Well, back to what type of music we would be playing. So Stephanie would definitely bring...

Hey, I'm okay with the 90s and-

self-country.

These 80s music, everybody loves 80s music. Jessie's girl.

Speaker 3 (22:25.612)
is 80s.

I'm sorry.

No.

That is definitely not 80s.

I don't know. I do know Hall and Oates, obviously, but I'm-

Speaker 4 (22:38.094)
A little Holland, you do know. A little air supply. Like you play that everyone's everyone's. agree with that.

Okay, alright, so listen, I'm all about it.

was a dink, a dink dink dink for me.

Okay, paddle princess.

Dink when done tastefully.

Speaker 2 (22:55.776)
Okay, I can go with that. Yeah, managed in the right way, small enough speaker. I don't need your boombox. I don't need to hear you 18.

and themselves now.

Did you say boombox? Did you walk onto the court with it on your shoulder, What?

I mean, I'm wearing my headband and my wristbands. Why would my pockets are hanging out the bottom of my shorts? I'm all about it. We're dinking definitely on the music on the court provided it's managed and done in the right way. Now let me talk about our sponsor because I'm just I love our sponsor. I know you all do too. Our sponsor, Dinkin' Balls. Listen, Dinkin' Balls are here to spice up your court time. We know that. Dinkin' Balls are for the mediocre player. They're definitely for me. I'm not trying to get the

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Speaker 4 (24:19.416)
found her.

Speaker 2 (24:24.302)
Let me start off with something that I found and as I did some more research, I don't think it's fully fleshed out now yet, but I can see it coming. So I wanted to talk about it early on. want to, maybe I'm not going to be an early adopter, but there's a dating app coming for finding your perfect pickleball player.

I saw that. I don't know what side of TikTok I'm on. Yeah. Because it shouldn't be that, but I did see that.

with our joint Facebook page. That's probably how you came to it.

I didn't, I scrolled past it so I don't know much about it, but.

No, and so, but I started thinking it. is this something we need? Is it something we do? We need a dating app for pickleball players.

Speaker 4 (25:03.758)
Well, I mean, why not? you if it's something you're interested in and why not meet up with somebody who likes the same interests, isn't that part of the problem is you go to a bar and find somebody and then you find out like they don't like anything you do. So.

But isn't that also built into, I mean, I've never been on a dating app, so I wouldn't know. But what I understand is that you can also build in your likes and dislikes and things like that. And that's how they do their little algorithm and match you up. So is it necessary to have another app? I mean, we're doing Christian mingle, we're doing pickleball dating, we're doing, you know, every single thing doesn't need its own niche. Why? Just because somebody doesn't like pickleball yet.

Sure.

Speaker 3 (25:46.476)
doesn't mean that they might not be the right match for you.

I think pickleball is a great first date.

I think Pickle is a great first date.

Yeah, but I mean, but in our our social media heavy virtual world that we've developed around ourselves now, I don't think we're the younger crowd is not finding each other necessarily on the courts, maybe just yet.

But you know what, and in the sidebar, I saw some pickleball companies or courts doing a pickleball singles night. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:12.59)
Absolutely.

I think that that's fun because I think that that's like an organic way to actually meet people face to face Yeah, and you just have conversations with people get to see like their actual facial expressions get to know if they're being genuine or not It's not like a swipe left or right or up or down or whatever they do I think that like guy was saying the digital world in the social media world. It's just

Swipe right if you bring post-game snacks.

Speaker 3 (26:42.37)
Getting too much.

Yeah, like are you just gonna sit around and talk to each other about pickleball on social? Like get out. Face. Yeah, I see that.

Meet people face to

Yeah, think it's I think it's great. I don't know if we need a whole site dedicated to pickleball players. Because tennis already has that love thing going on for them with the way they keep score from what I understand. So I don't know. Yeah, I thought it was interesting. I don't know if we're ready for it and we need it. I don't think it's a need. I was something I came across that I found that I thought a

was pretty interesting anyhow.

Speaker 3 (27:23.85)
And it might be great for some people. For me, being somebody who's been married over a decade, just, me, it's just not appealing.

Well, Paddle Princess, you had a learned.

Yes. Okay, so my learned is something that came, that I learned, but this is coming from somebody who is very, very novice, very, very amateur. So to this, yes, some of y'all may already know this, but what I learned is that when you're on the court, the left player hits 70 % of the balls and the right player hits 30%. And the reason for that is because when you're playing doubles and you're playing side by side,

Is that you?

Speaker 3 (28:05.004)
The left player is always going to hit the center shots so that the right hand player doesn't have to hit backhand. And the right side player should always hit with their forehand. And it leaves the left side to take over those shots.

I taught this to my sister over the weekend. That's awesome. Yeah, I was like, you be over there and stop trying to use that backhand you've never used ever. And I think that's why people who don't know a lot about pickleball, including myself when we started, it was like, why is that person a court hog? They're ball hogging. But really, that's what they're supposed to be doing.

Well, and to me, was like, I never knew who was supposed to get it. Because I'm like, am I supposed to go backhand it and reach across, or am I supposed to let them get it? I always felt awkward because I didn't know, and mainly because I don't really know all of the rules and how to play. I just like to play for fun. But this was very insightful to me, because now I don't feel like if I'm on the left-hand side, I'm encroaching on the right-hand side person. And if I'm on the right-hand side, I don't feel like I'd have to go and try to backhand it. Yeah. I can play my place.

I agree with that because, you know, I see some of these people two-handing a backhand. I'm like, holy crap, I'm not even getting to a backhand. You know what I mean? I'm doing like a third hand or something that I'm trying to do. And then I see people switching paddles and stuff like that. I don't get it. It's too much for me. And so this makes a lot more sense when you say, you know, 70 % on that one side. That's awesome. think that's something our listeners are going to resonate with too.

It is too much to do all that, but I will tell you, I try it all the time. Okay, yeah you do. just think I am gonna do it. You're always the most. I just wanna be cool and be like, watch this, it doesn't do well, but I love it. I'm like, put me on the left. I certainly shoved my sister into the right. I'm like, you stay over there.

Speaker 2 (29:53.548)
I think...

Speaker 2 (29:57.646)
Moving forward, I'm just gonna play with two paddles, I think is what it's gonna be.

Okay, so I have heard this week, by the way, I don't think our listeners know that when we show up to do the podcast, we don't know what each other are bringing to found her. Yeah, that's right. No, we don't. It's a surprise to everybody. Yeah. So I

Just further showing that we definitely don't know what we're doing. We're so glad you stayed this long.

I feel like with my herd, feel like humanity has literally run out of manicure ideas. What? Manicure?

of what?

Speaker 2 (30:31.896)
like for your

It was one.

Yes. Furry nails. Eww. Furry nails. So it's like a Chia Pet on your nail. It's like fur. literally don't attach to your acrylic. Yes. And so you look like Teen Wolf.

See you.

Speaker 3 (30:45.728)
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:51.638)
I'm sorry, teen.

Teen Wolf.

Wolf? No, no, WUF is what came out.

Like I'm just saying, like, I'm not trying to eat my food with a side of lint.

Well, okay, so let me ask this. Is it real or is it generic?

Speaker 3 (31:05.07)
doesn't matter, that's disgusting.

It's like

Am I gonna get red paint thrown on me? Like, Furious

It's not that type of fur. It's just like the material. You could buy a Hobby Lobby and it's like carpet on your nails. It's like a mullet manicure.

Like if you're eating some corn or something and then you get like a bite of nasty

Speaker 4 (31:24.654)
And then someone was saying that like you wash your hands and your hair and it stays in there like a- And then the mold. Yes. it stinks. somebody on, I think it was TikTok. don't know how I just-

What are you fiends doing?

And I didn't have TikTok for a while, so.

I know you were coming by like a druggy. Let me get a little...

Now we need to figure out what's going on in your For You

Speaker 4 (31:46.03)
Right? And so I saw these, you guys got to go look it up. I'm telling you, it's disgusting. And then someone else was saying like they were standing next to somebody with them and it smelled horrible. So y'all just get out there and check out three nails.

I'm going to dip into the pickle jar. I'm keeping on topic here with my nail.

Can you imagine the bacteria that you're just putting in the pickle?

I already have enough reasons not to like people. Please don't put

And you know I like my nails. Yeah? yeah. I will never.

Speaker 2 (32:15.822)
Thank you. Thank you for that. Both of you.

Hey, look at it.

No, are press-ons. I always do the press-ons. Stephanie gets hers done. Fantastic. They're gorgeous. are just cheap press-ons, but I will never do furry press-ons.

Hey, y'all heard something today.

Definitely.

Speaker 2 (32:34.84)
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