Pizza Fights, Parent Lies & Nasty Nelsons | Christine w/ Buffalo Pickleball Club

This episode has it all:

 🧠 The lies our parents told us (and the ones we’re passing on)
 🍍 Defending pineapple on pizza like it’s a way of life
 💥 What the heck is a Nasty Nelson — and why are we into it?
 🏓 Plus, we chat with Christine from Buffalo Pickleball Club about building community, battling the snow, and the wild west of court colors.

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Speaker 2 (00:00.487)
I've got pickleball with low ceilings. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

What the hell was that?

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 the Big Dink Energy podcast. We're so glad you're joining us. The most mediocre podcast on the podcast networks, I guess, just everywhere. We are the official Pickleball podcast, unofficially. So, yeah, we can say that. We're the unofficial Pickleball podcast.

We're the official unofficial. Officially unofficial. that one.

Speaker 2 (01:00.654)
You're incredibly unofficial. Unprofessional too, apparently. Very. This is our kitchen talk. We want to invite you in. This is what we would do normally when we didn't have mics on. We would just sit around talking to each other about different subjects, different things. And for this week, one of the things we talked about and it came up, I don't know how it came up, but it was the little lies that I was told when I was growing up. You the things like, you just ate, so you can't go in the pool for 30 minutes. Those little things that your parents told you.

Bye.

Speaker 2 (01:30.636)
I don't know that it wasn't saving my life or anything like that. wasn't causing undue harm. So no harm, no foul is what we know. So I wanted to kind of toss that around the room and see what you guys, cause we're all different generations in here. I'm incredibly good looking, but I'm a little bit older.

I fully thought the FBI was gonna come and arrest us from my mom's Ford Tempo because I put the little light button on during the drive. It's like, you gonna get pulled over? It's like, no ma'am. The FBI is not watching your backseat light.

Well, I

Speaker 2 (02:08.085)
That was a big thing for my dad. did not at nighttime at nighttime. You did not turn a light on in the car. You thought he was going to go night blind. All of a sudden we were going to end up in a ditch upside down. I remember that one for sure. Paddle princes. What from your generation, the generation.

my generation. Okay, so don't know if this is like a generation.

Now you're a millennial, right?

Technically, yes. I'm an elder millennial. Put it that way. Something that my parents did was, I mean, if you have kids in the car, make sure you're not listening with the kids in the car, but something that my parents

Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:43.15)
Give him a second, turn the radio down.

Obviously.

Okay, go ahead.

When the tooth fairy came, I always got a silver dollar. And then my parents would keep the silver dollar for safekeeping. And then when I got older, I was like, hey, like, can I get my silver dollars because I want to go like get some money. was the same one every time. And I thought that I had a loot of all of these silver dollars. And I didn't. To make up for it though, my dad did go buy me a bunch. And so now I do have some. But yeah, that is the lie.

Apparently, like, she really cared if you went to bed on time. Like, she was not going to give you money if you did not go to bed by midnight. Oh, the two-fer. You better go to bed. It's like, that lady don't have no GPS. Like, she don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (03:32.28)
Here's the other one I got. The tooth fairy only pays for clean teeth. Yeah. Hey.

that's a good one. Okay, but how about the lies we tell our kids? Like, I have a full list of those. The one I used the most, especially in Texas. I'm sorry, the park is closed today. The park? Yes. like, I'm emotionally spent. I'm not taking your butt to the park. But now as the kids get older, I know they're like, that park was never closed.

his clothes. I'm hot, not going.

Speaker 1 (04:06.414)
It's literally outside. So it's not closed.

Would you be fair, you use that with a lot of different things, like different stores, like where they're like, I want to go to Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is closed today.

Right. You can't have this, it's spicy. I'm like, it's a Kit Kat, ma'am. It is not spicy. Yeah, this is not for you. All that. you can't have this, it's too hot.

I have a couple more I want to share, I want to make sure you out there listening get into the bdepodcast.com and tell us the ones that you were told, the ones that made you do or have different behaviors are the ones you're currently using today. What about the, anybody ever heard the, if you pick your nose, your brain will fall out or you'll touch your brain.

That must be like a, what are you, the silent generation?

Speaker 2 (04:46.913)
Yes, I'm-

No, I've never

Baby boomer. What are you? Yeah, I never heard that

Really? And then obviously the one that is near and to my heart, and you can go research why this is, and you all know this, Santa's elves spy on you all year. listen, no, you gotta do the dishes because Santa's elves are watching.

Are they Jesus?

Speaker 1 (05:07.064)
yeah, yeah. think we used that.

Yes, but it was mainly only around like Christmas time.

Well, yeah, now we commercialize the heck... No, all year long. All year long. Santa's elves are watching you.

Not in part.

Speaker 1 (05:19.648)
I don't know that in March I'd be like, I'll take a rain check on that one. He ain't going to remember.

I'm roll the dice in March, but as we get into November, I'm gonna start believing it. Step on a crack, break your mama's back.

yeah, I remember that one. But I think one of the favorite ones that I used to do with the kids is hide and seek and it's like, no, you go hide. And it's like, I can't find you. I'm seriously just scrolling. Like, are you over there? No, you're not. scroll on the phone. I'll find you. I'm looking for you. then like every couple of every like 30 seconds or so, you're like, whoa, not in there.

get some things around just to make

Speaker 4 (05:50.902)
I just need some alone time.

Speaker 4 (05:55.266)
Are you behind the closet door?

Speaker 4 (05:59.918)
Exactly, I definitely did.

yeah, like hide for hours, please.

Yeah. One of the things that I found out wasn't true, only a couple years ago, because Guy and Stephanie told me, was I was always brought up being told that if there was a thunderstorm outside, could not.

This is my favorite story.

You could not take a bath. You could not do the dishes. You could not touch water because you would be electrocuted.

Speaker 1 (06:26.807)
We were saying what you were told as a kid, literally into your 30s, you believed.

I still believed it. I would never shower, wash dishes. do. I do now that y'all told me it wasn't true and then I Googled it. Because I grew up thinking that no, you cannot. You will die if you go.

There's no way you

Speaker 1 (06:43.778)
that shower.

Well, yeah, bless your heart. Well, I mean, so there is some truth to that back in the day when, you know, things were made out of lead and, the, you know, and the other one I want to bring up just because it was, uh, I think it crosses all generations and it's probably not true today. And it was the one that this is where I started turning the corner as a kid when they told me you have to eat all your dinner because kids in Africa were starving.

When you made your own sourdough.

I still make my own sourdough.

Speaker 2 (07:14.067)
yes. What does me cleaning my plate have to do to help these kids?

That is one of those things where it's like, I really just think that is a way to make kids eat food that they don't necessarily want and then they grow up to be the clean plate club people.

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, we created some fat kids with that. What were you going to do? Were you going to box it up and send it FedEx to Africa? I don't know what the plan was with that one.

That's what I'm thinking, I'm like that's-

Speaker 1 (07:43.726)
I just feel like was... Carb manipulation. To make you eat it all. I feel like we grew up with that and then now I'm like, well, I should finish it. And it's like, no, Stephanie, you ain't hungry, put it on.

It was just a guilt trip.

to make you

Speaker 4 (07:56.974)
Exactly, because I feel like a waste not want not and so there's still food on my plate like then I'm just wasting it.

literally still pack up food to go and I'm going back to a hotel and I know damn well I'm not going to eat it. But and then like it's like are you going to eat that I'm like no and then in the morning what am I going to have you know a calzone I'm not going to have that in the morning so I know so it's like okay to waste it at the hotel but it's not okay to waste it.

Every time. Every time.

Speaker 4 (08:23.624)
My daughter does it every single time we go out to eat. She will always get a to-go box, but she will not eat leftovers. Leftovers of any kind. She hates them. Will not eat it. And I'm like, why are you bringing it home?

That's ridiculous. I love leftovers. There's meatloaf in our fridge right now that I'm thinking about.

Same.

Speaker 4 (08:42.19)
I have leftover meatloaf in my house too.

Well, chime in, let us know what you think on the bdepodcast.com. Let us know what your little lies or your little guilt trips that you have going on with your kids at home. And maybe on our next Pickle Pal section, I'll ask our guests coming up what they think about or what the lies they were told. It's time for Pickle Pal.

All right, we are talking with courts around the nation and I have Christine here from the Buffalo Pickleball Club in Buffalo, New York. Christine, how are you today?

doing great. I'm doing great. I'm so excited to be here and talk about pickleball. One my favorite things.

So Christine, obviously the first thing, how can you even play pickleball right now in Buffalo, New York? I mean, it's just gotta be cold, right?

Speaker 3 (09:25.58)
Yeah, so it's cold. so we were lucky enough to find an indoor court to play at. So I started the club in August and it was intended as an outdoor free, just come play pickleball. We're going to be here on Saturdays, six to nine. Come on out and play. All levels welcome. So I kind of was like, there's not that many indoor pickleball courts, number one in Buffalo. So I wasn't sure how to continue it and Pick Fit Buffalo reached out to me.

It's a new gym, Pickleball Club in Buffalo. Happens to be really close to my house, which is awesome. And they have six pickleball courts, like a full CrossFit lifting situation with personal trainers. And they offered to host us for the winter. So we're playing at PickFit Buffalo.

Wow, that is awesome. Especially when they reach out to you. You know, cause the sport is growing. We know that as players, even me being a mediocre player, I know the sport is growing. We're seeing it in so many places now. We're seeing so many, especially parks and recreational outdoor areas taking their, maybe their old basketball courts or just a space they had that was concrete for whatever reason. they're putting up nets and calling it pickleball. And I couldn't be happier about that. So that's awesome for you guys.

Yeah, we're seeing a huge revitalization in Buffalo. I think we've seen that for the last 10 years now, but they're really investing into infrastructure, parks, recreation, and just in the last summer and into this summer, they're putting in at least 10 new pickleball courts that I've seen. So I'm really excited. And that's why I started the club. was happy Pickfit saw the vision to expand pickleball.

And I saw on your Instagram, you guys have a ton of different courts now. You have courts in Tana Wanda, you have courts in a place that I grew up, Lewiston, of all places at the Kiwanis Park. I remember being there as a kid. So that's awesome. Even in Lewiston, where they have the Peach Festival every year. Peach Festival. Just for our list.

Speaker 3 (11:24.398)
I have to say that they did a beautiful job with Kiwanis. have a ton of cords. It's a really great park that they redid. So when you visit back.

go check it out. Yeah, I noticed and maybe it's just not on your list. You didn't have any parks in Niagara Falls itself. Maybe that's because the casinos just haven't adopted it yet.

You know, I need to go back and double check now that you said that. I don't know. I'm going to double check the city.

I don't know. mean, it depends where you go down there. Nowadays, I I ran around there as a kid. It was okay. But nowadays, I think maybe you'd struggle getting from the parking lot to the court, not getting stabbed or robbed right away.

Yeah, it's a little rough and tumble, but I think there's opportunity for revitalization. Hopefully it comes soon.

Speaker 2 (12:09.836)
Well, as anything down there, know what will happen is Ontario will adopt it first and then Niagara Falls will come in 10 years later and say, yeah, we want to do pickleball now.

Yeah, and I think that we may be seeing that happen. I've noticed that there is a large pickleball like indoor courts in Ontario, in Canada, pretty close within 50 miles, which is nice. mean, it's international. There's a couple of tournaments that I'm looking forward to trying.

Yeah, but I wonder if there's a struggle there because everything is metric. So is the court a little bit smaller?

I don't think that changes it, but we'll see. don't know. My labs? No.

No, probably. Probably not. Yeah, yeah. You gotta wear a tuque or something like that while you're playing, maybe. So I noticed also on your Instagram, when I go there, there's a whiteboard, right? And I have to sign up with a color that represents my skill level. Is that right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:02.318)
Yeah, so it's a self-chosen skill level. really, you know, it's kind of self-assigned, so it's really whatever you want to be, whatever color you might pick up to. It's not really, you know, a hard and fast rule. But I noticed there is some of my players that were beginners, and it's intimidating maybe to play with some more advanced people. Or my advanced players don't want to play with beginners. They're coming to play more advanced games. They want competition, and that's fine. So that's kind where the color system comes into play.

And that way too, if you're signing up for that next core and you know it's beginners, you can wait if you want, or you can sign up with them and you just know to tailor your gameplay so everyone has fun.

I got you. I probably have to bring my own color, like a gray or something like that, just to indicate that I'm somewhere in the middle of the pack, maybe.

I keep it pretty simple, advanced, moderate beginner.

So what is advanced? What's the color for advanced?

Speaker 3 (13:55.118)
I used red, I don't know, just like traditional.

or danger. Danger. I'm surprised you didn't model it after the ski slopes, like double diamond and stuff like that.

You know, there's an idea and maybe I'll have to adopt that. We just started last August, haven't even hit, we're just hit six months. So I'm really proud of that. We have a growth of 750 followers and a tree. That's great. Yeah. Every week, like 40 to 50 people are coming out and I think in the summer it'll just be more.

the big sport where everybody at every level can come together and enjoy it and have fun and surround themselves with a community. know, cause quite frankly in your neck of the woods and I used to say it is you have nine months of great skiing and three months of okay skiing, right? So let's come around something. Yeah. Other than sledding and snow skiing, we've got to coalesce around something. So pickleball, think is that great thing.

You mentioned community and I noticed that there was the gap here. There wasn't like an easy to find club. They had Pickleheads, which is like an app or Team Reach, which are various apps that people use. But I think the average player, beginner coming onto a court like doesn't know how to find people. And then you go to a court here and it's empty. So it's like, how do you play pickleball by yourself? Yeah, it's not fun.

Speaker 3 (15:16.974)
So I think just the ability to come out, you know there's a bunch of people that are going to be there. It's going to be a great time. I'm hoping to expand it next year. It's a perfect opportunity for food trucks. So I guess some food trucks to roll through and everyone can really enjoy like pickle wall and.

It seems like there's a lot of food and a lot of drinks that surround pickleball. And I really hope that people really start stepping up their game on sponsoring, know, the food trucks sponsoring pickleball tournaments and clubs like yours for sure.

think it's huge opportunity to merge and marry the food and drink industry here with pickle

And there's a

Speaker 2 (15:51.822)
Yeah, if nothing else, mean, come out with your fried pickles. I mean, at least get attached to the sport that way, right?

I'm pretty sure there's a pickle truck, if I'm not mistaken, around that I've seen at some of the food truck festivals. So I think I have to reach out. I usually wait for people to reach out, but maybe I'll have to. I mean, there's a lot of potential. We could have wing-offs. Chili cook-offs are big here. I'm looking into doing tournaments, just like social fun ones in the future.

Does it cost to be part of your club? wow.

No, it's free. It's just a show. Yeah, so you show up one time and you're like, I'm in the club. Like I'm a member.

So it's not like you have to wear pink on Wednesdays type club.

Speaker 3 (16:30.582)
No, no, you just show up when you're free. I made it on Saturdays, 6pm to 9pm, because that was when I was available. And I was personally, you know, I was looking for people to play with, different people. And it's sometimes I'm like, I'm a mom, so it's hard to find different times during the week. And so it worked out.

Did you ever anticipate it becoming what it is now?

You know, I wasn't sure. It started off, I'll tell little story about this, that my first week I had 20 followers, right? I just started with 20 followers and I thought I was doing pretty good. I had my little Instagram handle and I felt cool. And my three friends come out, we play and they're like, all right, great job. Like you could have just texted us though. Like you didn't have to set up a whole Instagram for us to play. And I was like, you know what guys? Like I'm going to show you.

You

Speaker 3 (17:16.576)
So I just I got on Facebook. I started my little marketing join. We're coming out to play. And I really wasn't sure. I was really nervous. And that the second week, 20 people I didn't know just showed up. And I was like, my God, this is a thing. People are going to show up. When you're sitting there, I got there 15 minutes early and I was just sitting there by myself. like, OK, I hope someone comes.

Right. yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that that's the that's the fear factor. Yeah, I put myself out there is anybody even to show up to this well that so that's

No RSVP. mean, it was just outdoors. It was just like, hey, I'm going to be here.

Yeah, and your Instagram is awesome. It's so informative. There's so much stuff out there. And again, for building that community where you are, I think that's so necessary. This is kind of the gap that needs to be filled between the older player or the middle of season player and the younger generation where we can all come together and just again have that bond and that community over some of the pickleball. That's so awesome.

And it's a great time, like it's free. So families can come out. There's really no age limit. It's really all inclusive. It's it really became a passion project of mine. So it's not my career. I'm a pharmacist by trade. And I just wanted like an outlet, like a creative outlet that incorporated something I love to do. like I said, I saw that gap. No, I don't. But it's cold enough. could.

Speaker 2 (18:35.982)
Do you play in your lab coat at all?

Speaker 2 (18:40.782)
Yeah, I mean that's the thing that when you said pharmacist that's the only thing that jumped in my like she's out there in her lab coat just and any people

Yeah, like on my lunch. I should make them call me doctor. Yeah.

so now we're developing your lore and we're developing your court name now.

Ooh, I've never had a cork thing.

we got to start thinking about it. So do you have some characters within your group? Someone that's just like, my gosh, this is the Pickleball King or this guy, he wears his short shorts and cowboy boots or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (19:15.092)
You know, we have, I'd say not like any like standout, eclectic players at a wide range, which I love. You know, we have families coming out with like kids eight and 12 years old that are comfortable playing with adults and really good. And then we have, you know, our oldest member, I guess. He's a Vietnam veteran. His name is Jim. He's such a sweet man. you know, he's definitely holds his own. Don't sleep on him.

That's awesome. Okay. For my Marine listeners, anybody from the U S Marines is listening. The word eclectic means that it's combined. Just letting you know. That's the army humor I've got to bring. this it's just going to be controversial enough that they're going to show up in my comments section.

like that your club is bringing generations together. It is. really is. Because when they're out there sitting, you know, they're getting to experience a different generation and talk to them and be around them, which is something, you know, social media doesn't really provide. So being out there, getting to talk to a Vietnam vet while you're waiting and you're 12 years old, that's amazing.

And I think, I mean, even just playing with him and against him, you just learn so much with the game and how people think and strategize.

So cool. Okay. So one of the biggest things or one of the questions that I make sure we ask everybody, either you personally or for the club, what is the one song that just captures the Buffalo Pickleball Club?

Speaker 3 (20:42.67)
If you search on Instagram, there is a ton of random pickleball songs. You'll notice all of my posts have these weird pickleball songs. They're like rap songs, but with pickleball lyrics. you listen to the sound, it's pretty funny. Sometimes it's country songs with just pickleball lyrics.

Super Bowl like how we kept thinking is he saying pickleball?

Okay, so now that is turning me on to something I've got to go down a rabbit hole later on and I'm sure our listeners will too. So rap songs and just different songs with with pickleball themes or pickleball shoved in there. There's time.

One of the weirdos that watch reels and stuff without the sound on.

Speaker 3 (21:23.118)
I do normally too because it can be a lot. Yeah, but if you go through the sound, each one's different.

Now I'm gonna look.

Speaker 1 (21:32.49)
Wait.

Okay, so how can people get ahold of you? How can people get involved? How can people come to the Buffalo Pickleball?

Yeah, so Instagram. On Instagram, it's at Buffalo Pickleball Club. We meet every Saturday, 6 to 9. We're currently playing at Pick Fit Buffalo, which is in Tana Wanda, on Two Mile Creek, if you're local. And then in the summer, we play at Paddock Park. That's by the golf dome. I don't know if you're still familiar. You the golf dome there. They renovated the park. It's gorgeous. Right next to the splash pad. So.

In the summer, I'm hoping they have lights and hoping they'll be on this year and be able to play a little nighttime pickleball.

Maybe some, just some headlamps. think that that probably isn't it. So if I'm coming to play with your group, I can bring my wooden paddles. I can bring the things I just grabbed off the shelf at Walmart, or I can-

Speaker 3 (22:22.702)
I have them. really? Yeah. Paddles and balls are provided. Yeah. we had a local store runner reach out. He had a bunch of demo paddles and he was like, my store isn't really set up for demo. they just keep sending me these with each kit I get. Do you want them? So I just drove down there. I thought they were just going to be like paddles. I don't know. They were like the nicest Selkirk paddles.

$200 pass. Oh my God. Are you sure? It's just been a great collaboration, I think, with the local community and that was really where my passion was and why I wanted to start.

That's so awesome. So we're talking with Christine from Buffalo Pickleball Club. If you're traveling through the United States and why wouldn't you go to Buffalo, New York? Obviously you're headed there for the wings. Go in the fall, get you some maple syrup while you're up there, because they're pretty adjacent to Vermont. Don't get the Canadian stuff. And also see the fall foliage that they have going on up there as well. So go find Buffalo Pickleball Club. They're on Instagram. Christine, thank you so much for being here. It's been awesome having you.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much.

What a wonderful thing you're doing.

Speaker 2 (23:36.878)
Yeah, Dink or Destroy Dime, this is the time we pick something that we want to either dink and say yes to or destroy and send it on its way. Who had it this week? Somebody had something.

We on pizza.

I already know where I am with this one. Well, no, I... Okay, well, let's get into it. Okay.

I feel like, hey Tom, you eat sushi from a gas station, stop judging my pineapple on pizza. I don't like that people go, fruit doesn't belong on pizza.

So I think naturally when you order it, I'm just kind of picking it apart here. When you order it, it has ham and pineapple. It's called a Hawaiian pizza.

Speaker 1 (24:16.91)
It's called Hawaiian.

I it was pepperoni too. And sausage. just a meat source and pineapple.

Okay, so you want the sweet with the tang. Yeah.

I also have to have the spice. So I also need it with jalapenos or a lot of red pepper flakes and some Tabasco.

Okay. Now, here's where I start to have a little problem with it. And this, I don't know if you all know this, that came from Canada. Okay. So now I think we need to put some tariffs on it or something like that.

Speaker 4 (24:46.454)
geez here

I just feel like the same people who are like, you know, you shouldn't have fruit on pizza are eating their fig arugula flatbread. Like that's the same thing, Karen.

Yeah, the non-pizzas. Big.

Speaker 4 (25:02.222)
to go to salsa?

Now, now I've-

And strawberries on salads. Right.

Yeah, I'm not a fan. Let me say, I haven't been a fan. Now I did try a piece, you know, a month ago or something like that. And it was probably because it was the only slice available. Yes, I am. As long as it's available. That's right. Within reason. And price. So I didn't hate it. I'll say that. I've had it before and it was not for me and I will not order it.

As you'll eat anything.

Speaker 1 (25:34.894)
And that's fine, I mean, I think it's fine. I just don't like that people talk about it so poorly. They're so against it. I'm like, you put those nasty ocean snakes on your, whatever they're called. What are those called? A land showbie.

I won't do that.

Maybe we should order it ocean snakes

I will not do anchovy

I'm like you're gonna complain about tropical fruit? Yeah. You put those squirmy nasty eyeball looking things at you? No, don't, don't.

Speaker 2 (26:03.938)
Don't. Sardine. No, no. No, it's anchovies. Anchovies too, yeah. Anchovies are-

I've never seen you a TV show.

I'm sure nasty people put sardines too. yeah, for sure. It is a dink. Is it a dink? It's a dink for me. I am a hundred percent pineapple on pizza. Love it. But if you don't love it, like let it go. Like people are against that.

Anyways, so we're getting.

Speaker 2 (26:24.686)
Yeah, this is one of those arguments like beans and chili. I'm not gonna get started on that. But yeah, it is one of those arguments. I think I'm gonna turn the corner. You're a ding. You're sending it over the net, good to go. up. Paddle princess, you go first.

on that.

Speaker 1 (26:37.411)
I'm a dean.

Speaker 4 (26:41.902)
It's 100 % dink for me anytime that I am actually able to order my own pizza toppings because not everybody in the house likes it. I will get pineapple on my pizza every single time.

Okay, I'm gonna go with dink because it is pizza and it's one of the best food groups going. It is pizza. Period. And then the other thing is, like I tell my kids, if you don't like it, pick it out. So I could take the pineapple off if I wanted to. I'm a dink. I'm a dink.

It still leaves the sweetness.

But you can't take those ocean snakes off. No.

Ocean snakes. Don't put the ocean snakes on there, whatever you do. Tell us if you like ocean snakes. into bdepodcast.com. You can leave us a voicemail if you want to tell us about your ocean snakes or anything weird. Maybe you put on your pizza. Do you all have a second for me to talk about wardrobe? I know that's kind of off topic, but I got to talk about our new sponsor, the Pickle Hood. Listen, when I'm on the court, I think it's cool that you went to church picnic in 2007.

Speaker 4 (27:17.336)
Keep in ho-

Speaker 2 (27:43.946)
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That's my monster truck version.

Okay, we can cut that.

News

Speaker 4 (28:38.094)
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (28:43.96)
you can use.

Let's get into a little bit of news that you can use. Who's got something they want to go with right away?

something funny that I kind of just learned about. So the very first tournament of pickleball was in 1976. No way. And the grand prize, listen to this, was a canister of golf balls. I'm like, pickleball didn't even know it was a good thing back then. Like it didn't even know it was pickleball. I know that is what the grand prize was.

What the heck?

Speaker 4 (29:15.95)
That's two different sports.

Speaker 2 (29:19.796)
That's the only sponsor you can get. Around your community, someone will give you something else.

I'm like, could I get a Chili's gift card? I'm really worried about what second place... I'm really worried about what second place got.

Guy, you alive then?

Speaker 2 (29:33.868)
Yes, I was alive.

Right. They got the tees. First place got the golf balls, second place got the tees, so they had to play together.

1976.

you could have went around, I mean, just any other business. That said, no wonder it took so long to catch on.

You're so great at this new sport. Let's give you another sports.

Speaker 2 (29:54.51)
Hey, Tom! I treating-

Now you're gonna go play golf.

That's what I'm saying. I mean, I guess in this community, tennis, golf, pickleball, they're all kind of this, a lot of the same type of- Yeah, but a lot of the same type of people. a lot of people are like, oh, I don't golf, I play pickleball. Oh, I don't play pickleball, I golf.

for it.

Speaker 2 (30:13.23)
But not even like tennis balls.

like to know the brand because I want to know what the backstory of why they got golf balls. I'm going into a deep dive tonight. It's happening.

What you got there, paddle princess, do you have one?

Yes. Okay. So there's been a lot of storms in the South and in central area. And something that I saw the other day was these guys who lived in their college dorm and they went into their basement and it kind of looked like a rec room, but I'm not quite sure because they just kind of showed the video of it, but they took a bunch of chairs and basically took like a sheet and tied them together and used that as their net and made the basement their pickleball court.

Low ceilings though, I'm guessing. It's gotta be at the base. Low ceilings. I'm sorry, go ahead. That was my Garth Brooks. I've got pickleball with low ceilings. that was the riff.

Speaker 4 (30:56.926)
It wasn't too like I've a ball with a

Speaker 1 (31:03.982)
What the hell was that?

Speaker 1 (31:08.526)
Okay, there you go.

I like it.

Interesting. Yeah, I think you could pretty much use anything. I just thought it

was fun because it's like they're sitting there, there's a storm outside, they can't go play pickleball, they're stuck in this room. Why not make it fun? Absolutely. And so they're sitting there and they're just playing. I mean, of course they're just not actually playing, but they're having fun while they're doing it and riding out in the storm and started making me think of where I could be.

make it. It's going a better direction than I've seen some colleges like even here in Austin the colleges I'm not gonna name any they had quidditch teams where they would have brooms between their legs running around on a field so hey anything that gets you out of playing quidditch I'm all for especially in a rainstorm. Okay so I've got something. What if I say the term nasty Nelson what comes to mind?

Speaker 1 (32:00.608)
It's what I know what it is. What do you? I know. It's really it's Miss Nelson if you're nasty.

I do not.

It actually comes from a real person.

No, Miss Nelson was a teacher.

I'm, that was a great Janet. You got to do your riff. Miss Nelson, if you're nasty. That was good. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. I love me some Janet.

Speaker 2 (32:21.784)
your shirt back on please. I'm not talking about Miss Nelson the teacher and the children's book. I know that book too. So The Nasty Nelson is a serve that you serve directly at a person. And if you hit them or their paddle, you win the point.

And you can, it doesn't even have to be a cross. You just nail them when they're not looking and you get the point. mean, it's just for fun. Okay. But it's gonna be.

Like a fun actual thing.

Tim the puppet master Nelson made it famous with his goal to smack his opponents with the ball. Not paying attention, not ready.

Like they're like right at the kitchen line, they're not really ready. You just boom, nail.

Speaker 2 (33:02.508)
Yep, 100 % legal under USA Pickleball rules.

Really? % love it. Yep.

automatically get a point.

I would say it's it's not something you do to a brand new person if you're trying to get them involved it's coming to you

And it may be only one point because I don't know if you're going to get it the second time.

Speaker 1 (33:22.379)
They're ready. But it's almost like that pay attention like we're ready like let's go. Bam!

What do they do? Bam! Nice. my gosh.

Yeah, I think it's cool. I'm 100 %

I think it's a way to just bring someone into the core and just say, here's a little tattoo for you.

That's interesting. Okay. Hope that never happens.

Speaker 1 (33:44.254)
little circle welts on your leg. How do like?

Beat me out on a court, please don't do that.

You do that a couple times, you got a paddle coming back your way.

Yeah, that or slash tires. something. know, Miss Nelson, if you're nasty.

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Speaker 2 (34:27.246)
Keep the dink soft and the energy big.